Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Feb 2012
Multicenter StudyPredictors of functional outcome following femoral neck fractures treated with an arthroplasty: limitations of the Harris hip score.
To study the association between potential prognostic factors and functional outcome at 1 and 5 year follow-up in patients with femoral neck fractures treated with an arthroplasty. To analyze the reliability of the Harris hip score (HHS). ⋯ After using the HHS in a modification, age and the existence of pre-operative co-morbidities appeared to be predictors of the functional outcome after 1 and 5 years. The HHS, omitting pain, is a more reliable score to estimate the functional outcome, than HHS analyzing pain and function in one scoring system.